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Informationen zum Autor Klaus Bergdolt is Professor of History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne. Klappentext This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century, when scientific medicine began to gain ascendancy. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a lively and well exemplified account of the numerous historical manifestations of dietetics showing that despite the diversity of notions of healthy and ill', directions on healthy living remain surprisingly constant throughout the centuries. Notwithstanding his admiration for the achievements of modern medicine, Bergdolt regrets that the simplest dietetic principles such as moderation, as well as the notion of individual responsibility for ones own health, are increasingly neglected, and that the old health precepts are frequently divorced from modern medicine. However, some circumstances, including economic constraints, speak in favour of a better balance between scientific medicine and traditional teachings on healthy living. Zusammenfassung This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a thoroughly researched and a well exemplified examination of the numerous historical manifestations of 'dietetics'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Prologue: The Ancient Advanced Civilizations - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia 7 1 Greece 14 The ideal of health in ancient Greece 14 The Presocratics 19 The Hippocratic corpus 24 Diocles of Carystus, a fourth-century health pedagogue 30 'Knidic' dietetics 33 Health in Plato and Aristotle 37 Dietetics in Alexandria 44 Cures and miracles, Aesculapius and Hygieia 46 Public health care and sport 53 Early Stoics and Cynics 56 2 Rome 62 People and literati: dietetics in ancient Rome 62 New doctors, new theories 73 Sport and baths 77 The sacred tales of Publius Aelius Aristides 79 The Roman Stoics: Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus 82 Galen 87 3 Jewish and Early Christian Traditions 94 Jewish doctrines of health 94 Christus medicus 98 Early Christian doctrines of health 103 4 Medieval Traditions in the East and West 109 Jealing and health in early monasticism 109 The first German pharmacopoeia 113 Dietetics in Islam 116 Medieval doctrines of health in the West 124 Asceticism and mysticism - feasts and beauty care 131 Western and Eastern clerical scholars: Maimonides, Petrus, Hispanus, Roger Bacon 137 Hildegard of Bingen 146 Saints and miracle workers 149 The power of the stars 154 5 Doctrines of Health in the Renaissance 158 Petrarch's conception of health 158 Alberti and other intellectuals around 1500 161 House books and manuals - health and literature 168 Further humanists - Platina, More, Luther 173 Philosophy of health and prophylaxis in Venice - Mercuriale, Rangone, Cornaro 179 Gabriele Zerbi and the Gerontocomia 185 Paracelsus' teachings on health 187 Herbal books 191 Dietetics in daily life 194 6 Dietetics in the Seventeenth Century 199 Cartesianism and conservative tendencies 199 Van Helmont, Sylvius and other 'iatrochemists' 208 Doctrines of health in England - the dietetics of the state 210 Health through planning - the utopias 216 The dietetics of the Enlightenment - philosophers, pedagogues, charlatans 220 7 Doctrines of Health in the Eighteenth Century 226 Medical theories of health 226 The French Enlightenment and Rousseau 233 Tissot, Triller, Mai: health ...
